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Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical manifesto with a lot of depth and a lot of dry parts. It is masked as a story, but it is hard core philosophy. The Fountainhead is a cool story with love, sex, deception, legal drama, violence, explosions, etc. I only recommend The Fountainhead because it is a good read and easier to comprehend than a lot of her other work.

I just hate how she makes her characters so plain and hard to relate to. People say that she is great with plotting and story telling but it's hard to place yourself in the story when you can't relate with any of the characters. Atlas Shrugged def. touches on politics and even religion, and is really like you said masked as a story, but it's just to dry for my tastes and i would like to have know her characters better.

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I just hate how she makes her characters so plain and hard to relate to. People say that she is great with plotting and story telling but it's hard to place yourself in the story when you can't relate with any of the characters. Atlas Shrugged def. touches on politics and even religion, and is really like you said masked as a story, but it's just to dry for my tastes and i would like to have know her characters better.

You have to give The Fountainhead a try, then. Much better story, about 300 pages shorter, and much better with character development. I found Atlas Shrugged dry and difficult to read, but I've read The Fountainhead dozens of times, and it's still awesome.

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even though it's considered a a children's-young adult's book, The Giver is still my favorite and I think it deals with some pretty heavy themes that would be overlooked by younger children. I have read it several times beginning when i was about 10 and just finished it again a couple months ago and it gets better everytime and I catch new things, I'm 22 now by the way.

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even though it's considered a a children's-young adult's book, The Giver is still my favorite and I think it deals with some pretty heavy themes that would be overlooked by younger children. I have read it several times beginning when i was about 10 and just finished it again a couple months ago and it gets better everytime and I catch new things, I'm 22 now by the way.